{"id":214797,"date":"2016-10-31T16:44:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T20:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/10\/31\/thiel_educates_the_elites_on_trump\/"},"modified":"2017-01-05T11:13:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:13:52","slug":"thiel_educates_the_elites_on_trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/31\/thiel_educates_the_elites_on_trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Thiel Educates the Elites on Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Peter Thiel, perhaps the lone Silicon Valley billionaire who is supporting Donald Trump.&nbsp; And Peter Thiel has taken his lumps in Silicon Valley.&nbsp; As you know, I read a lot of tech blogs, and they hate Peter Thiel.&nbsp; These are young Millennial tech journalists who all believe in climate change, who all believe in practically whatever any Democrat anywhere has to say, they all believe it, I mean, they\u2019re robots.&nbsp; They have been mind-numbed through their education and just accept it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_129768\" class=\"img_middle\" align=\"middle\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Peter-Thiel.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">Peter Thiel, therefore, is a standout and a standalone and, full disclosure, I have met and chatted with Peter Thiel one time. Conrad Black and I found ourselves at the same dinner party. We ended up discussing world events, focusing on the future of the United States and China, as it was that night with Peter Thiel. I found him to be brilliant and engaging, and I was stunned when I got to this place that he was a conservative Republican.<\/line><\/p>\n<p>I was stunned that he was not a leftist.&nbsp; Let me put it that way.&nbsp; Whatever he is, maybe he\u2019s Libertarian, I don\u2019t know, but I was stunned and surprised to find out that he was not a leftist.&nbsp; So he\u2019s at the National Press Club today trying to bring it home for Trump.&nbsp; He spoke at the Republican National Convention.&nbsp; And in two sound bites here, I want to see what you think.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s the cofounder of PayPal.&nbsp; I think it would be helpful to point that out, cofounder of PayPal.&nbsp; And he\u2019s an investor in many like-minded industries and businesses in Silicon Valley.&nbsp; So here\u2019s the first of the two bites.<\/p>\n<p>THIEL:&nbsp; I don\u2019t agree with everything Donald Trump has said and done, and I don\u2019t think the millions of other people voting for him do either.&nbsp; Nobody thinks his comments about women were acceptable, but I don\u2019t think the voters pull the lever in order to endorse a candidate\u2019s flaws.&nbsp; It\u2019s not a lack of judgment that leads Americans to vote for Trump.&nbsp; We\u2019re voting for Trump because we judge the leadership of our country to have failed.&nbsp; This judgment has been hard to accept for some of the country\u2019s most fortunate, socially prominent people.&nbsp; It\u2019s certainly been hard to accept for Silicon Valley, where many people have learned to keep quiet if they dissent from the coastal bubble.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AfYLEPRiIyE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; Now, folks, this is right on the money.&nbsp; This explains every Trump supporter.&nbsp; You know, the media and a lot of nose-out-of-joint Republicans and even a lot of nose-out-of-joint conservatives are wandering around trying to figure out why this reprobate, why this coarse, this braggart, this bombastic, this rough-around-the-edges, why this guy with no character, why do so many people support him?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And Thiel nails it here, and it\u2019s true for everybody supporting Trump.&nbsp; They\u2019re not endorsing Trump because of his flaws.&nbsp; His flaws don\u2019t matter right now because people have judged the current leadership of the country to have failed and failed big, and they show no signs of even realizing they\u2019ve failed.&nbsp; The people opposing Trump both in the Republican and Democrat Party do not sense a crisis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_129777\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/DemocratSHORT.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">How many times have we discussed this?&nbsp; They do not sense a country off the rails, because to them it isn\u2019t.&nbsp; They do not have to live with any of the conditions their policies create.&nbsp; They\u2019re not worried about the unemployment rate; it\u2019ll never affect them.&nbsp; They\u2019re an worried about open borders, immigration.&nbsp; It doesn\u2019t affect them.&nbsp; Their kids are not gonna be around the people that commit crimes, who have crossed the border illegally, they\u2019re not gonna be confronted by it.&nbsp; They live in protected enclaves, in large part.&nbsp;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>Obamacare, it doesn\u2019t matter to them.&nbsp; They have their own work-arounds for this.&nbsp; Taxes, Obamacare, jobs, manufacturing, whatever it is, they have purposely insulated themselves.&nbsp; It\u2019s a fact that people have slowly come to realize, that people in Washington create rules for the rest of the country from which they exempt themselves.&nbsp; So there\u2019s two sets of rules here, and the people running the country right now are seen as having failed big time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, not only have they failed, they have lied during campaigns. They have led voters to believe they do understand the problems and they do think the country is at a crossroads crisis. And they have led people to believe that they\u2019re gonna work hard to, say, close the borders and have immigration make sense, it\u2019s gonna be legal. And they\u2019re gonna get Obamacare fixed, health care fixed. And nothing ever happens, it\u2019s just words, and they have listened to these words for one election cycle too many now.&nbsp; And here finally is a chance to blow it up.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"585\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z9RPNa5dhCM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have maintained from the beginning, from all the way back in the primaries, I spent I don\u2019t know how many hours combined trying to explain to people why Trump had the support that he has, who the people were supporting him, and why they could not be peeled off from him. Why no matter what they tried to take Trump supporters and get them to abandon him, it didn\u2019t work.&nbsp; I\u2019ve spent I don\u2019t know how many hours trying to explain it.&nbsp; It\u2019s not complicated whatsoever.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump exists not because America has descended to the gutter culturally or socially and finds a reality TV star to be more genuine than a politician.&nbsp; Donald Trump has ascended to the position he holds because the people who have been in power are taking the country down the tubes and in the wrong direction, and people have tried every which way they think, using the Democrat process, to stop it.&nbsp; They\u2019ve voted, they have donated, they\u2019ve tried to raise money, but the IRS has come along and shut some of them down, as you well know. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"eZObject_129776\" class=\"img_right\" align=\"right\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/TrumpShortSign.jpg\"\/><line xmlns:tmp=\"http:\/\/ez.no\/namespaces\/ezpublish3\/temporary\/\">So the voters are just fed up with the fact that our betters, the elites, the ruling class, the establishment, just don\u2019t see the country as most people have to live it.&nbsp; And so Trump represents an opportunity to change the leadership of the country simply because it\u2019s failed.&nbsp; It has failed, and it will continue to fail if it doesn\u2019t change because it\u2019s the same people with the same kind of thinking.&nbsp; Here\u2019s the next bite from Peter Thiel&#8230;<\/line><\/p>\n<p>THIEL:&nbsp; For a long time, our elites have been in the habit of denying difficult realities.&nbsp; That\u2019s how bubbles form.&nbsp; Nobody would suggest that Donald Trump is a humble man.&nbsp; But the big things he\u2019s right about amount to a much needed dose of humility. Just as much as it\u2019s about making America great, Trump\u2019s agenda is about making America a normal country.&nbsp; A normal country doesn\u2019t have a half trillion dollar trade deficit.&nbsp; A normal country doesn\u2019t fight five simultaneous undeclared wars.&nbsp; In a normal country, the government actual does its job.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH:&nbsp; See how simple this is?&nbsp; Things are not normal; this is not the way America is supposed to work.&nbsp; This is no more complicated than that.&nbsp; He could have added any number of things here to define &#8220;normal country.&#8221;&nbsp; A normal country does not have health care priced beyond the vast majority of the population\u2019s ability to afford it!&nbsp; A normal country does not have 94 million Americans not working!&nbsp; Almost half the adult population is not working!&nbsp; That\u2019s not normal!&nbsp; And if you want to delve into the culture, then it\u2019s really not normal!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Now, Thiel didn\u2019t go there, but a lot of people do when they make these assessments.&nbsp; It\u2019s not working! This is not how it\u2019s supposed to work. It\u2019s not normal, the leadership &#8212; and the leadership consists not&#8230; It\u2019s not political parties.&nbsp; It\u2019s not an indictment of Democrats only or Republicans only. It\u2019s the establishment ruling class of Washington that is properly seen as the leadership of the nation.&nbsp; And they\u2019re failing.&nbsp; And not only are things abnormal, they\u2019re getting worse.&nbsp; There\u2019s no indication that anybody there understands what needs to be improved, much less how to do it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Peter Thiel, perhaps the lone Silicon Valley billionaire who is supporting Donald Trump.&nbsp; And Peter Thiel has taken his lumps in Silicon Valley.&nbsp; As you know, I read a lot of tech blogs, and they hate Peter Thiel.&nbsp; These are young Millennial tech journalists who all believe in climate change, who all believe in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thiel Educates the Elites on Trump - The Rush Limbaugh Show<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/10\/31\/thiel_educates_the_elites_on_trump\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Thiel Educates the Elites on Trump - The Rush Limbaugh Show\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"RUSH: Peter Thiel, perhaps the lone Silicon Valley billionaire who is supporting Donald Trump.&nbsp; 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